trouble understanding the advanced search

Re: trouble understanding the advanced search

Don’t mess around with dots ‘n dashes but keep it simple. Search purely on model number. Half the blokes on here can’t even spell Electrolux correctly so likely as not the info you seek is in a thread using the work lux or elux or even e/lux. Whereas those same blokes don’t often mess with the model number in the same way. If you catch my drift? 😉

Re: trouble understanding the advanced search

Dead easy (if you’ve lived with this stuff as long as I have), here’s some examples…

You wand a WMA1516 but it can be done either as shown or WMA 1516 or WM1516S, WM1516W, WMA 1516 W, WM 1516W and so on but you know it’s a Beko model.

The problem with a search facility, unless it’s really, really smart like Bing and Google is that it will search what you type, not what you think. To get around that you use wildcards.

So you would put this in the search box first..

*1516*

That will pull up all references to that “string” regardless of whether it’s numbers or letters but on either side (where the * is) it will ignore any character. It doesn’t matter if it’s a space, that the dbase often sees as “” and not a space as you see it.

Now, if you want to pull up posts that only contain the word “Beko” and the model 1516 then the search would be…

+Beko *1516*

That says to the search to only pull up posts that contain both the word “Beko” as well as the “1516” in any context.

I know that for non-geeky types that might be hard to get your head round but it’s as simple as I can possibly explain it I think.

K.